History Lesson- 4. The Age of Industrialisation ( MCQs ) for UP board, CBSE , Ncert , others board and examinations
A : Multiple Choice Questions......
1 : Who invented the steam engine? 
   a. James Watt.   b. Newcomen 
   c. Richard Arkwright  d. None of these
Answer: a
2 : Who devised the spinning Jenny ?
   a. Richard Arkwright.   b. James Watt
    c. James Hargreaves.   d. Samuel Luke 
Answer: c 
3 : The introduction of which new technology in England angered women ?
     a. The spinning Jenny
      b. The underground railway
      c. The steam engine
       d.None of the above 
Answer: a
4: When was the first cotton mill established in Bombay ?
      a. 1854.        b. 1855
       c. 1856.        d. 1857
Answer : a
5 : Dwarkanath Tagore was a :
    a. Painter.       b. Industrialist
    c. Philosopher.  d. Social Reformer
Answer : b
6 : Which of the following were the most dynamic industries of the Great Britain ?
  a. Cotton and Sugar Industry
   b. Cotton and Metal Industry
   c. Metal and Agro - based Industry
   d. Ship and Cotton Industry 
Answer : b
7 : Who among the following produced a popy music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the Dawn of the country ?
    a. Newcomen.     b. James Watt
     c. E. T. Paull         d. Mathew Boulto 
Answer : c
8 : Who created the cotton mill ?
      a. Richard Arkwright.    b. Williams
       c. Newcomen.               d. James Watt
Answer: a 
9 : What was Spinning Jenny?
    a. A machine.     b. A person
     c. An industry.    d. None of these
Answer : a
10 : Which of the following were the pre - colonial ports India ?
      a. Surat and Masulipatnan  
      b. Madras and Hoogly
       c. Madras and Bombay
       d. Bombay and Hoogly
Answer: a
11:  Which pre colonial port connected India to the Gulf countries and the Red Sea ports ?
       a. Bombay.        b. Hoogly
        c. Surat.            d. Machhalipatnam
Answer: c
12 :  Who among the following set up the first Indian Jute Mill in Calcutta in 1917 ?
        a. Seth Hukumchand    b. G D. Birla
        C. Jamsed Tata       d. None of above
Answer: a
13: Which one of the following was the job of Gomastha?
        a. Supervise weavers
         b. Collect supplies
         c. Examine the quality of the cloth 
        d. All of the above
Answer : d
14 : The person who got people from village , ensured them jobs , helped them settle in cities and provided them money in times of need was known as : 
        a. Stapler.       b. Fuller 
        c. Gomastha.   d. Jobber
Answer : d
15 : Production process involving carding , twisting, rolling and stapling are associated with 
       a. Textile industry.   b. Railway industry
        c. Shipping industry.   d. Glass industry
Answer : a
16: When did earliest factories come up England?
      a. 1720.     b. 1730
      c. 1740.      d. 1750
Answer : b
17 :  Koshtis were 
      a. A  community of weavers
       b. Weavers
       c. Cotton weavers.   d. Iandless laboures
Answer : a
18 : At which place from the following the first spinning and weaving mill was set up in 1874 ?
      a. Kanpur.               b. Madras
       c. Ahmedabad.     d. Bombay 
Answer : b
19: Why did the women working in the woolen textile industry begin attacking the Spinning Jenny ?
       a. It caused them unemployment
       b. They could not operate the machine
       c. It did not produce finer yarn
        d. They were scared of the machine
Answer : a
20 : Name the country which was the first country to undergo industrial revolution?
    a: France.            b. Britain
    c. Germany.         d. U.S.A.
Answer: b
21:  Industrial revolution refers to 
     a. Mass production by factories
      b. Collection of raw materials
      c. Process of raw materials
      d. None of the above
Answer: a
22 : Which of the following movement mobilised Indians to boycott foreign goods?
     a. Partition of Bengal
      b. Non cooperation movement
      c. Swadeshi movement
      d. None of the above
Answer: c
23 : The first iron and steel works in India were set in which year ?
      a. 1904.       b. 1907 
       c. 1911.       d. 1921 
Answer : b
24 : Where was the first jute mill set up ?
    a. Bengal.       b. Bombay
    c. Madras.      d. Bihar
Answer : a 
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